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Basic paradiddle funk

Man, there’s just a whole lot of stuff besides blogging on my mind lately— like a Europe tour and recording project— so we may not see a lot of hugely substantive posts in the coming weeks. We’ll see. But here’s a pretty straightforward page of funk beats, or fragments of funk beats, based on paradiddles:

As you can see, we’re adding bass drum to the familiar inversions

RLRR LRLL

RLLR LRRL

RRLR LLRL

RLRL LRLR

played with the right hand on the hihat, and the left hand on the snare, and accenting on the beat. I play the right hand at a fairly even volume, with big dynamics in the left; playing the unaccented notes very softly, and the accented notes strongly.